With a day lost to travelling, a lack of sleep and an extremely irritable Paul, the bus trundled into Puerto Iguazú. From the bus station, we took a taxi to "Hostel Inn Iguazú", a large, pokey hostel lacking any atmosphere or staff with any kind of brain! We freshened up, fed and watered and due to the crappy weather just bummed around the hostel.

The next day we were up bright and early and on a bus to "Iguazú Parques Nacionales", home of Iguazú Falls, a collection of around 275 individual cascades plummeting across a 2.7km horseshoe shaped cliff. A quick bus ride to the entrance, tickets bought and we were on a train through the jungle toward "Garganta del Diablo" - The Devil's Throat. We walked across a vast expanse of water atop a metal walkway. The remnants of the previous walkway destroyed in 1992 by flooding was a tiny bit unnerving, considering it was several feet taller than it's replacement! At the end of walkway was a viewing deck perched precariously above the plunging horseshoe cascade known as the "Devil's Throat". The ferocity of the waters motion threw plumes of mist high into the air causing producing a fine rain on the approach to the platform. Above the falls, the wind produced by the sheer volume of water whipped the mist into columns of water which soaked the platform! Very invigorating.

We head back to the train to get onto the "Paseo Superior", a 650 meter trail across the top of the falls offering stunning views across the gorge with vivid rainbows stretching across. The final path, "Paseo Inferior" was a 2.5km circuit around the plunge pools with platform extensions into the path of the falls. We descended into the valley and down to the waters edge, we ponchoed up and boarded a powerboat which took us right up into the path of "San Martin Falls". The wind produced by the cascading water was insane! Absolutely soaked, we had to change on an exposed rock face, very indignities and I ended up mooning an elderly couple...


Changed, dry and adequately warm, we began the long walk back to the bus. The evening passed by and I managed to book a bus ticket for Rio de Janeiro with the Hong Kong Girls, my itinerary has well and truly gone to pot! The next day was spent sunbathing, my first chance of sunbathing in South America, the day was wiled away and the following day we boarded our 24 hour bus to Rio.